[R] Questions about lrm, validate, pentrace
khosoda at med.kobe-u.ac.jp
khosoda at med.kobe-u.ac.jp
Tue Apr 26 16:53:10 CEST 2011
Thank you for you quick reply, Prof. Harrell.
According to your advice, I ran pentrace using a very wide range.
> pentrace.x6factor <- pentrace(x6factor.lrm, seq(0, 100, by=0.5))
> plot(pentrace.x6factor)
I attached this figure. Then,
> pentrace.x6factor <- pentrace(x6factor.lrm, seq(0, 10, by=0.05))
It seems reasonable that the best penalty is 2.55.
> x6factor.lrm.pen <- update(x6factor.lrm, penalty=2.55)
> cbind(coef(x6factor.lrm), coef(x6factor.lrm.pen),
abs(coef(x6factor.lrm)-coef(x6factor.lrm.pen)))
[,1] [,2] [,3]
Intercept -4.32434556 -3.86816460 0.456180958
stenosis -0.01496757 -0.01091755 0.004050025
T1 3.04248257 2.42443034 0.618052225
T2 -0.75335619 -0.57194342 0.181412767
procedure -1.20847252 -0.82589263 0.382579892
ClinicalScore 0.37623189 0.30524628 0.070985611
> validate(x6factor.lrm, bw=F, B=200)
index.orig training test optimism index.corrected n
Dxy 0.6324 0.6849 0.5955 0.0894 0.5430 200
R2 0.3668 0.4220 0.3231 0.0989 0.2679 200
Intercept 0.0000 0.0000 -0.1924 0.1924 -0.1924 200
Slope 1.0000 1.0000 0.7796 0.2204 0.7796 200
Emax 0.0000 0.0000 0.0915 0.0915 0.0915 200
D 0.2716 0.3229 0.2339 0.0890 0.1826 200
U -0.0192 -0.0192 0.0243 -0.0436 0.0243 200
Q 0.2908 0.3422 0.2096 0.1325 0.1582 200
B 0.1272 0.1171 0.1357 -0.0186 0.1457 200
g 1.6328 1.9879 1.4940 0.4939 1.1389 200
gp 0.2367 0.2502 0.2216 0.0286 0.2080 200
> validate(x6factor.lrm.pen, bw=F, B=200)
index.orig training test optimism index.corrected n
Dxy 0.6375 0.6857 0.6024 0.0833 0.5542 200
R2 0.3145 0.3488 0.3267 0.0221 0.2924 200
Intercept 0.0000 0.0000 0.0882 -0.0882 0.0882 200
Slope 1.0000 1.0000 1.0923 -0.0923 1.0923 200
Emax 0.0000 0.0000 0.0340 0.0340 0.0340 200
D 0.2612 0.2571 0.2370 0.0201 0.2411 200
U -0.0192 -0.0192 -0.0047 -0.0145 -0.0047 200
Q 0.2805 0.2763 0.2417 0.0346 0.2458 200
B 0.1292 0.1224 0.1355 -0.0132 0.1423 200
g 1.2704 1.3917 1.5019 -0.1102 1.3805 200
gp 0.2020 0.2091 0.2229 -0.0138 0.2158 200
In the penalized model (x6factor.lrm.pen), the apparent Dxy is 0.64, and
bias-corrected Dxy is 0.55. The maximum absolute error is estimated to
be 0.034, smaller than non-penalized model (0.0915 in x6factor.lrm) The
changes in slope and intercept are substantially reduced in penalized
model. I think overfitting is improved at least to some extent. Should I
select this as a final model?
I have one more question. The "procedure" variable was defined as 0/1
value in the previous mail. For some graphical reason, I redefined it as
treat1/treat2 value. Then, the best penalty value was changed from 3.05
to 2.55. I guess change from numeric to factorial caused this reduction
in penalty. Which set up should I select?
I appreciate your help in advance.
--
KH
(11/04/26 0:21), Frank Harrell wrote:
> You've done a lot of good work on this. Yes I would say you have moderate
> overfitting with the first model. The only thing that saved you from having
> severe overfitting is that there seems to be a signal present [I am assume
> this model is truly pre-specified and was not developed at all by looking at
> patterns of responses Y.]
>
> The use of backwards stepdown demonstrated much worse overfitting. This is
> in line with what we know about the damage of stepwise selection methods
> that do not incorporate shrinkage. I would throw away the stepwise
> regression model. You'll find that the model selected is entirely
> arbitrary. And you can't use the "selected" variables in any re-fit of the
> model, i.e., you can't use lrm pretending that the two remaining variables
> were pre-specified. Stepwise regression methods only seem to help. When
> assessed properly we see that is an illusion.
>
> You are using penalizing properly but you did not print the full table of
> penalties vs. effective AIC. We don't have faith that you penalized enough.
> I tend to run pentrace using a very wide range of possible penalties to make
> sure I've found the global optimum.
>
> Penalization somewhat solves the EPV problem but there is no substitute for
> getting more data.
>
> You can run validate specifying your final penalty as an argument.
>
> Frank
>
>
>
> 細田弘吉 wrote:
>>
>> According to the advice, I tried rms package.
>> Just to make sure, I have data of 104 patients (x6.df), which consists
>> of 5 explanatory variables and one binary outcome (poor/good) (previous
>> model 2 strategy). The outcome consists of 25 poor results and 79 good
>> results. Therefore, My events per variable (EPV) is only 5 (much less
>> than the rule of thumb of 10).
>>
>> My questions are about validate and pentrace in rms package.
>> I present some codes and results.
>> I appreciate anybody's help in advance.
>>
>> > x6.lrm<- lrm(outcome ~ stenosis+x1+x2+procedure+ClinicalScore,
>> data=x6.df, x=T, y=T)
>>
>> > x6.lrm
>> ...
>> Obs 104 LR chi2 29.24 R2 0.367 C 0.816
>> negative 79 d.f. 5 g 1.633 Dxy 0.632
>> positive 25 Pr(> chi2)<0.0001 gr 5.118 gamma 0.632
>> max |deriv| 1e-08 gp 0.237 tau-a 0.233
>> Brier 0.127
>>
>> Coef S.E. Wald Z Pr(>|Z|)
>> Intercept -5.5328 2.6287 -2.10 0.0353
>> stenosis -0.0150 0.0284 -0.53 0.5979
>> x1 3.0425 0.9100 3.34 0.0008
>> x2 -0.7534 0.4519 -1.67 0.0955
>> procedure 1.2085 0.5717 2.11 0.0345
>> ClinicalScore 0.3762 0.2287 1.65 0.0999
>>
>> It seems not too bad. Next, validation by bootstrap ...
>>
>> > validate(x6.lrm, B=200, bw=F)
>> index.orig training test optimism index.corrected n
>> Dxy 0.6324 0.6960 0.5870 0.1091 0.5233 200
>> R2 0.3668 0.4370 0.3154 0.1216 0.2453 200
>> Intercept 0.0000 0.0000 -0.2007 0.2007 -0.2007 200
>> Slope 1.0000 1.0000 0.7565 0.2435 0.7565 200
>> Emax 0.0000 0.0000 0.0999 0.0999 0.0999 200
>> D 0.2716 0.3368 0.2275 0.1093 0.1623 200
>> U -0.0192 -0.0192 0.0369 -0.0561 0.0369 200
>> Q 0.2908 0.3560 0.1906 0.1654 0.1254 200
>> B 0.1272 0.1155 0.1384 -0.0229 0.1501 200
>> g 1.6328 2.0740 1.4647 0.6093 1.0235 200
>> gp 0.2367 0.2529 0.2189 0.0341 0.2026 200
>>
>> The apparent Dxy is 0.63, and bias-corrected Dxy is 0.52. The maximum
>> absolute error is estimated to be 0.099. The changes in slope and
>> intercept are also more substantial. In all, there is evidence that I am
>> somewhat overfitting the data, right?.
>>
>> Furthermore, using step-down variable selection ...
>>
>> > validate(x6.lrm, B=200, bw=T)
>>
>> Backwards Step-down - Original Model
>>
>> Deleted Chi-Sq d.f. P Residual d.f. P AIC
>> stenosis 0.28 1 0.5979 0.28 1 0.5979 -1.72
>> ClinicalScore 2.60 1 0.1068 2.88 2 0.2370 -1.12
>> x2 2.86 1 0.0910 5.74 3 0.1252 -0.26
>>
>> Approximate Estimates after Deleting Factors
>>
>> Coef S.E. Wald Z P
>> Intercept -5.865 1.4136 -4.149 3.336e-05
>> x1 2.915 0.8685 3.357 7.889e-04
>> procedure 1.072 0.5590 1.918 5.508e-02
>>
>> Factors in Final Model
>>
>> [1] x1 procedure
>> index.orig training test optimism index.corrected n
>> Dxy 0.5661 0.6755 0.5559 0.1196 0.4464 200
>> R2 0.2876 0.4085 0.2784 0.1301 0.1575 200
>> Intercept 0.0000 0.0000 -0.2459 0.2459 -0.2459 200
>> Slope 1.0000 1.0000 0.7300 0.2700 0.7300 200
>> Emax 0.0000 0.0000 0.1173 0.1173 0.1173 200
>> D 0.2038 0.3130 0.1970 0.1160 0.0877 200
>> U -0.0192 -0.0192 0.0382 -0.0574 0.0382 200
>> Q 0.2230 0.3323 0.1589 0.1734 0.0496 200
>> B 0.1441 0.1192 0.1452 -0.0261 0.1702 200
>> g 1.2628 1.9524 1.3222 0.6302 0.6326 199
>> gp 0.2041 0.2430 0.2043 0.0387 0.1654 199
>>
>> If I select only two variables (x1 and procedure), bias-corrected Dxy
>> goes down to 0.45.
>>
>> [Question 1]
>> I have EPV problem. Even so, should I keep the full model (5-variable
>> model)? or can I use the 2-variable (x1 and procedure) model which the
>> validate() with step-down provides?
>>
>> [Question 2]
>> If I use 2-variable model, should I do
>> x2.lrm<- lrm(postopDWI_HI ~ T1+procedure2, data=x6.df, x=T, y=T)?
>> or keep the value showed above by validate function?
>>
>> Next, shrinkage ...
>>
>> > pentrace(x6.lrm, seq(0, 5.0, by=0.05))
>> Best penalty:
>> penalty df
>> 3.05 4.015378
>>
>> The best penalty is 3.05. So, I update it with this penalty to obtain
>> the corresponding penalized model:
>>
>> > x6.lrm.pen<- update(x6.lrm, penalty=3.05, x=T, y=T)
>> > x6.lrm.pen
>> .....
>> Penalty factors
>>
>> simple nonlinear interaction nonlinear.interaction
>> 3.05 3.05 3.05 3.05
>> Final penalty on -2 log L
>> [,1]
>> [1,] 3.8
>>
>> Obs 104 LR chi2 28.18 R2 0.313 C 0.818
>> negative 79 d.f. 4.015 g 1.264 Dxy 0.635
>> positive 25 Pr(> chi2)<0.0001 gr 3.538 gamma 0.637
>> max |deriv| 3e-05 gp 0.201 tau-a 0.234
>> Brier 0.129
>>
>> Coef S.E. Wald Z Pr(>|Z|) Penalty Scale
>> Intercept -4.7246 2.2429 -2.11 0.0352 0.0000
>> stenosis -0.0105 0.0240 -0.44 0.6621 17.8021
>> x1 2.3605 0.7254 3.25 0.0011 0.6054
>> x2 -0.5385 0.3653 -1.47 0.1404 1.2851
>> procedure 0.9247 0.4844 1.91 0.0563 0.8576
>> ClinicalScore 0.3046 0.1874 1.63 0.1041 2.4779
>>
>> Arrange the coefficients of the two models side by side, and also list
>> the difference between the two:
>>
>> > cbind(coef(x6.lrm), coef(x6.lrm.pen),
>> abs(coef(x6.lrm)-coef(x6.lrm.pen)))
>> [,1] [,2] [,3]
>> Intercept -5.53281808 -4.72464766 0.808170417
>> stenosis -0.01496757 -0.01050797 0.004459599
>> x1 3.04248257 2.36051833 0.681964238
>> x2 -0.75335619 -0.53854750 0.214808685
>> procedure 1.20847252 0.92474708 0.283725441
>> ClinicalScore 0.37623189 0.30457557 0.071656322
>>
>> [Question 3]
>> Is this penalized model the one I should present for my colleagues?
>> I still have EPV problem. Or is EPV problem O.K. if I use penalization?
>>
>> I am still wondering about what I can do to avoid EPV problem.
>> Collecting new data would be a long-time and huge work...
>>
>>
>> (11/04/22 1:46), khosoda at med.kobe-u.ac.jp wrote:
>>> Thank you for your comment.
>>> I forgot to mention that varclus and pvclust showed similar results for
>>> my data.
>>>
>>> BTW, I did not realize rms is a replacement for the Design package.
>>> I appreciate your suggestion.
>>> --
>>> KH
>>>
>>> (11/04/21 8:00), Frank Harrell wrote:
>>>> I think it's OK. You can also use the Hmisc package's varclus function.
>>>> Frank
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 細田弘吉 wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Dear Prof. Harrel,
>>>>>
>>>>> Thank you very much for your quick advice.
>>>>> I will try rms package.
>>>>>
>>>>> Regarding model reduction, is my model 2 method (clustering and
>>>>> recoding
>>>>> that are blinded to the outcome) permissible?
>>>>>
>>>>> Sincerely,
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> KH
>>>>>
>>>>> (11/04/20 22:01), Frank Harrell wrote:
>>>>>> Deleting variables is a bad idea unless you make that a formal part of
>>>>>> the
>>>>>> BMA so that the attempt to delete variables is penalized for.
>>>>>> Instead of
>>>>>> BMA I recommend simple penalized maximum likelihood estimation (see
>>>>>> the
>>>>>> lrm
>>>>>> function in the rms package) or pre-modeling data reduction that is
>>>>>> blinded
>>>>>> to the outcome variable.
>>>>>> Frank
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 細田弘吉 wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi everybody,
>>>>>>> I apologize for long mail in advance.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I have data of 104 patients, which consists of 15 explanatory
>>>>>>> variables
>>>>>>> and one binary outcome (poor/good). The outcome consists of 25 poor
>>>>>>> results and 79 good results. I tried to analyze the data with
>>>>>>> logistic
>>>>>>> regression. However, the 15 variables and 25 events means events per
>>>>>>> variable (EPV) is much less than 10 (rule of thumb). Therefore, I
>>>>>>> used R
>>>>>>> package, "BMA" to perform logistic regression with BMA to avoid this
>>>>>>> problem.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> model 1 (full model):
>>>>>>> x1, x2, x3, x4 are continuous variables and others are binary data.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> x16.bic.glm<- bic.glm(outcome ~ ., data=x16.df,
>>>>>>> glm.family="binomial", OR20, strict=FALSE)
>>>>>>>> summary(x16.bic.glm)
>>>>>>> (The output below has been cut off at the right edge to save space)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 62 models were selected
>>>>>>> Best 5 models (cumulative posterior probability = 0.3606 ):
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> p!=0 EV SD model 1 model2
>>>>>>> Intercept 100 -5.1348545 1.652424 -4.4688 -5.15
>>>>>>> -5.1536
>>>>>>> age 3.3 0.0001634 0.007258 .
>>>>>>> sex 4.0
>>>>>>> .M -0.0243145 0.220314 .
>>>>>>> side 10.8
>>>>>>> .R 0.0811227 0.301233 .
>>>>>>> procedure 46.9 -0.5356894 0.685148 . -1.163
>>>>>>> symptom 3.8 -0.0099438 0.129690 . .
>>>>>>> stenosis 3.4 -0.0003343 0.005254 .
>>>>>>> x1 3.7 -0.0061451 0.144084 .
>>>>>>> x2 100.0 3.1707661 0.892034 3.2221 3.11
>>>>>>> x3 51.3 -0.4577885 0.551466 -0.9154 .
>>>>>>> HT 4.6
>>>>>>> .positive 0.0199299 0.161769 . .
>>>>>>> DM 3.3
>>>>>>> .positive -0.0019986 0.105910 . .
>>>>>>> IHD 3.5
>>>>>>> .positive 0.0077626 0.122593 . .
>>>>>>> smoking 9.1
>>>>>>> .positive 0.0611779 0.258402 . .
>>>>>>> hyperlipidemia 16.0
>>>>>>> .positive 0.1784293 0.512058 . .
>>>>>>> x4 8.2 0.0607398 0.267501 . .
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> nVar 2 2
>>>>>>> 1 3 3
>>>>>>> BIC -376.9082
>>>>>>> -376.5588 -376.3094 -375.8468 -374.5582
>>>>>>> post prob 0.104
>>>>>>> 0.087 0.077 0.061 0.032
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> [Question 1]
>>>>>>> Is it O.K to calculate odds ratio and its 95% confidence interval
>>>>>>> from
>>>>>>> "EV" (posterior distribution mean) and“SD”(posterior distribution
>>>>>>> standard deviation)?
>>>>>>> For example, 95%CI of EV of x2 can be calculated as;
>>>>>>>> exp(3.1707661)
>>>>>>> [1] 23.82573 -----> odds ratio
>>>>>>>> exp(3.1707661+1.96*0.892034)
>>>>>>> [1] 136.8866
>>>>>>>> exp(3.1707661-1.96*0.892034)
>>>>>>> [1] 4.146976
>>>>>>> ------------------> 95%CI (4.1 to 136.9)
>>>>>>> Is this O.K.?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> [Question 2]
>>>>>>> Is it permissible to delete variables with small value of "p!=0" and
>>>>>>> "EV", such as age (3.3% and 0.0001634) to reduce the number of
>>>>>>> explanatory variables and reconstruct new model without those
>>>>>>> variables
>>>>>>> for new session of BMA?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> model 2 (reduced model):
>>>>>>> I used R package, "pvclust", to reduce the model. The result
>>>>>>> suggested
>>>>>>> x1, x2 and x4 belonged to the same cluster, so I picked up only x2.
>>>>>>> Based on the subject knowledge, I made a simple unweighted sum, by
>>>>>>> counting the number of clinical features. For 9 features (sex, side,
>>>>>>> HT2, hyperlipidemia, DM, IHD, smoking, symptom, age), the sum ranges
>>>>>>> from 0 to 9. This score was defined as ClinicalScore. Consequently, I
>>>>>>> made up new data set (x6.df), which consists of 5 variables
>>>>>>> (stenosis,
>>>>>>> x2, x3, procedure, and ClinicalScore) and one binary outcome
>>>>>>> (poor/good). Then, for alternative BMA session...
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> BMAx6.glm<- bic.glm(postopDWI_HI ~ ., data=x6.df,
>>>>>>> glm.family="binomial", OR=20, strict=FALSE)
>>>>>>>> summary(BMAx6.glm)
>>>>>>> (The output below has been cut off at the right edge to save space)
>>>>>>> Call:
>>>>>>> bic.glm.formula(f = postopDWI_HI ~ ., data = x6.df, glm.family =
>>>>>>> "binomial", strict = FALSE, OR = 20)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 13 models were selected
>>>>>>> Best 5 models (cumulative posterior probability = 0.7626 ):
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> p!=0 EV SD model 1 model 2
>>>>>>> Intercept 100 -5.6918362 1.81220 -4.4688 -6.3166
>>>>>>> stenosis 8.1 -0.0008417 0.00815 . .
>>>>>>> x2 100.0 3.0606165 0.87765 3.2221 3.1154
>>>>>>> x3 46.5 -0.3998864 0.52688 -0.9154 .
>>>>>>> procedure 49.3 0.5747013 0.70164 . 1.1631
>>>>>>> ClinicalScore 27.1 0.0966633 0.19645 . .
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> nVar 2 2 1
>>>>>>> 3 3
>>>>>>> BIC -376.9082 -376.5588
>>>>>>> -376.3094 -375.8468 -375.5025
>>>>>>> post prob 0.208 0.175
>>>>>>> 0.154 0.122 0.103
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> [Question 3]
>>>>>>> Am I doing it correctly or not?
>>>>>>> I mean this kind of model reduction is permissible for BMA?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> [Question 4]
>>>>>>> I still have 5 variables, which violates the rule of thumb, "EPV>
>>>>>>> 10".
>>>>>>> Is it permissible to delete "stenosis" variable because of small
>>>>>>> value
>>>>>>> of "EV"? Or is it O.K. because this is BMA?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Sorry for long post.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I appreciate your help very much in advance.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>> KH
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> ______________________________________________
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>>>>>>> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -----
>>>>>> Frank Harrell
>>>>>> Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University
>>>>>> --
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>>>>>>
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>>>>>>
>>
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>
>
> -----
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> Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University
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